Studying our Integrated Healthcare Practice and Strategic Leadership MSc course will equip you with the in-depth knowledge and skills to support, lead and manage transformative healthcare provision through integrating a range of health and social care services. To develop your practice, you will be equipped with the critical leadership knowledge and capabilities used to strengthen partnership and collaborative working across various sectors in our Collaborative Leadership in Integrated Health and Care Systems unit to understand how this instils compassion and high-quality performance and collaborative work practices at every level of health and care. Similarly, our unit in Strategic Management and Leadership of Organisational Mental Health and Wellbeing will allow you to understand the impact of mental health and wellbeing on organisational performance as well as the complexities of managing wellbeing in an organisation. Furthermore, you will be exposed to the contemporary approaches in creating healthy work systems and a positive culture of mental health and wellbeing.

It is also important that you consider the economic factors affecting the health and social care sector so that it can continue to produce financially sustainable systems and effective strategies to meet increased demand and inform policy. This is where our unit in The Principles and Application of Health Economics will provide you with the foundations to make cost-effective decisions around the intervention and treatments as well as develop your understanding on how economic models can influence leadership decision making processes when it comes to allocating finite resources around in a health and social care organisation. This course also offers a range of optional units for you to explore, such as our unit in Health Informatics that will allow you to gain a critical awareness of the ethical and practical complexity of managing health data across integrated care.

If you are passionate about sustainability, you will be able to integrate this practice with leadership qualities in our Implementing Sustainable Lifestyle Redesigns in Allied Health Professionals Care unit.Here, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to work within NHS environments, social and community care, social enterprises or charities to implement a sustainable lifestyle redesign. You may also choose to develop your understanding of Health and Social Care Inequalities while analysing research to reduce inequalities in health and social care. You will also consider different social categories such as gender, age, race, sexuality, disability and mental health to understand how these factors influence the social care people receive.

Finally, you will have the option to complete a Research or Work-Based Dissertation in Integrated Healthcare and Strategic Leadership. If you choose to engage with the research option, this unit will prompt you to actively research a question related to integrated health and social care practice or organisation. Through working with a supervisor, you will study a topic of your interest in more depth, particularly a core topical issue facing integrated healthcare settings. You will then perform an original analysis based on theory and literature acquired from the course alongside your own research and subsequently apply this learning to a specific research topic in the broad field of integrated healthcare. Alternatively, the Work-Based Dissertation will give you the opportunity to join a health and/or social care organisation to complete a minimum of 100 hours as you deliver on a work-based project aimed at creating change within integrated healthcare services. You will develop a personal development plan to monitor and develop your employability skills alongside this project while practicing in a leadership role in the health and social care workforce.